5 Ways to Eat Watermelon

Watermelon season is here and everyone in our family loves eating watermelon! It’s juicy, it’s sweet and it’s perfect on a hot day. But sometimes when you buy a really big watermelon, after cutting and eating half of it in a traditional fashion, the other half might just sit in the fridge for a while. I started thinking, what are some different ways we can eat watermelon? These are five great ways!

1. Watermelon Popsicles
There are so many recipes out there for watermelon popsicles, but here’s the easiest way: take your cut up watermelon (with no rind.) Put in in the blender with some ice. Blend until it’s smooth. Put it in a popsicle mould and freeze. That’s it, so easy, tasty and healthy. And a bonus is that the kids will love it! If your melon isn’t that sweet, you can always add a little of your favourite sweetener.

2. Watermelon SmoothiesMy little guy loves smoothies so we make them quite often. However, we’ve never actually tried making one with watermelon as the main ingredient. So recently we experimented and came up with this fabulous Watermelon Smoothie

3. Watermelon Salsa
I’m a huge salsa and guacamole lover and then I found out about watermelon salsa so I had to try it! One of my favourites is a watermelon mango salsa or pico de gallo recipe that I found on Damn Delicious. It’s two of my favourite fruits in chip dipping form. You have to try it!

Photo from DamnDelicious.net

4. Watermelon SaladDuring the summer, salad is a great go-to lunch or side dish for dinner. It’s easy, healthy and refreshing. Well how about adding watermelon to your salad to give it a tasty kick? Try this easy watermelon salad recipe I found at Spoonful.com. All you need is cubed watermelon. Toss it with red wine vinegar and olive oil. Add some crumbled feta cheese, mint and sprinkle with salt and pepper.

Photo from Spoonful.com

5. Watermelon Cocktails
I’m not a huge cocktail drinker but I love the idea of a refreshing watermelon cocktail on a a hot summer day. Here’s one recipe from Teaspoon of Spice that looked really good, a watermelon margarita. All you need is watermelon, tequila, a lime, sugar and a blender.

Photo from Teaspoon of Spice

There are so many different recipes you can try with watermelon that I actually started a Pinterest board to keep track of all the recipes I want to try out. If you want to try some of them, you can follow my Watermelon Recipes board here and feel free to add any watermelon recipe ideas you love.

have you seen the watermelon CAKE….for any occasion ??? It’s super cool, especially when your soon to be 13 year old, DOES not like any kind of CAKE…remove the outside skin, create as even as possible circle “cake” and then cover it in whipped cream and finish with berries and or flakes of almonds…..love it ! Looks like a real cake until,you slice into it ! 🙂

A couple of weeks ago I tried out a watermelon cocktail and really enjoyed it. So refreshing. I took a chilled watermelon and cubed it up and then hand pressed it through a sieve. I took that juice added some Fresca and the bubbles and fizz made a delicious frothy drink. For the adults I added some vodka. Delicious!

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Welcome! I'm Salma, writer, entrepreneur, social media enthusiast, mother, wife and bargain shopoholic (shh, don't tell anyone.) After becoming a mother the word balance ceased to have any meaning. This blog is my journey to finding the balance, between motherhood and life...if there is such a thing.